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The formula for doing a good job in photography is to think like a poet.
Imogen Cunningham
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Imogen Cunningham
Age: 93 †
Born: 1883
Born: April 12
Died: 1976
Died: June 23
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I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
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When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.
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It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.
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I just believe in working. I'm not one of those romantic explainers of my own individual point of view.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.
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There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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Suppose Cartier-Bresson asked the man who jumped the puddle to do it again --- it never would have been the same. Start stealing!
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I don't resent anything.
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You know, a documentary is only interesting once in a while. If you look at a whole book of Dorothea [Lange]'s where she has row after row of people bending over and digging out carrots - that can be very tedious. And so it's only once in a while that something happens that is worth doing.
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The thing that's fascinating about portraiture is that nobody is alike.
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I wasn't very ambitious. I think that's the solution. I just took things as they came. I wouldn't say I didn't have any problem, but I didn't care. I didn't think I was going to save the world by doing photography as some of these people do. I was just having a good time doing it, and so I still had a good time no matter what I had to photograph.
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Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives.
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Get it out of your historic head.
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I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.
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When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me.
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I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.
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Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
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I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.
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